Improvement in railways



0. P. DODGE.

Railway.

Patented July 15; 1879.

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UNITED-STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

CHARLES F. DODGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. i

IMPROVEMENT IN RAI LWAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,452, dated July 15,1879; application filed April 7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. Donen, of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kingsand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railways, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in the combination, in a railway, with a rail andtravelers, of a supplementary rail and a series of cars adapted to bestarted by'and run forward for a short distance with the said travelers,and to fill or load the same.

g It also consists ,in combinations of parts and details hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of a railwayembodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same,including an end view of one of the loading-cars; and Fig. 3 is a sideview of a portion of the same, including a side view of one of theloading-cars.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Adesignates a single-rail railway, consisting of a cable adapted to besupported on posts or other substructure, and designed for use p with aseries of travelers consisting of wheels or pulleys C and hangers D,suspended from their axle-journals, and carrying ooal-hods E. Thehangers are severally made in this instance of two side pieces connectedat the top by rivetsr, passing through flanges f, and the journal-boxesj are flanged on the inner ends, and, being inserted in the side piecesfrom the inner sides, are held in place by the hub of the wheel orpulley G, or shoulder on the axle thereof, the axle being fixed rigidlyto the wheel or pulley. The journal-boxes and the wheel or pulley areinserted in their places before the two side pieces are connected. Theside pieces, extending down below the wheel or pulley, serve as guardsto prevent it from running off the rail. F designates a supple mentaldouble-rail railway, which may be of the ordinary or any other suitableform, and

supported on trestle-work or any other kind of substructure. Grdesignates a series of cars running on this double-rail railway, andhaving their bodies so constructed and connected with the car-trucksthat when released from a catch, H, they will tilt over and dump theirloads. I designates a hopper from which the material to be carried bythe travelers is introduced into the cars.

pushed by hand or otherwise around to a po- 'sition parallel with thesingle-track. railway A, and when a traveler, O D, arrives near, itcomes in contact with an arm, J, extending from the adjacent side of thecar, and the latter is moved by the traveler running in proximity withit. On the arrival of the car opposite an upwardly-inclined projection,K, the latter raises the inner end of the catch H, which consists of alever, and releases a hook, h, on its outer end from engagement with aprojection, 19, on the car-body, and thereupon the car-body tilts overtoward the traveler and dumps its contents into and loads thehod E,carried by the traveler. Ai'ler running with the traveler a certaindistance, sut'ficiently long to admit of the proper loading of the hodof the traveler, the car G reaches an inclined portion of thedouble-rail railway, commencing at n, Fig. 1, and runs in advance of thetraveler, so as to get out of the way of the same, and continues onwarduntil it arrives at the hopper 1, ready for more of the material to betransported. I preferably provide a platform, L, adjacent to theportions of the single and double rail railways which run in proximityto each other.

- It will thus be seen that I provide for automatically loading thetravelers and without stopping them. V

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination, witha railway wherein are employed a series oftravelers, of a sup plemental railway wherein is employed a dumping-car,which may be ,set in motion by and run in unison with any of the saidtravelers, and may effect the loading of the latter without stoppingthem, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a railway wherein are employed a series oftravelers, of a supplemental railway wherein is employed. a dumping-car,the latter being provided with an arm, whereby any of the travelers mayimpart motion to it, and with means which may be released by a deviceupon its railway to permit of its dumping, substantially as specified.

CHAS. F. DODGE.

Witnesses:

CHANDLER HALL, THOMAS E. BIRCH.

